Some people will try to pull a sympathy trip on you or wish it was under different circumstances we met ... the thing with being diagnosed positive is to be positive. You got the visit from the "friend that won't go home"!

Your on meds, you have a great medical team, I hope! Things will be great going forward. Accept it, own it, just don't let it live your life and you'll be great.

I was diagnosed Feb/13, getting close to one year now and it's been a great experience, not something I would wish for anyone, but it's important to make lemonade! I know I was one of the lucky one's, never got the "oh woe is me" thing, just took the news and made a new life out of it (well not so much a life, as a new ME)!

Again welcome, don't be shy, this is a great place to just post something, anything, we all want to hear your story, hear your journey ... you are not alone!

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